Captain John Paul Jones (USN) was commander of a ex-French ship, the USS Bonn Home Richard.
The Battle of Yorktown was the only American Revolutionary War battle where the French Army and Navy coordinated a large operation with the American Army.
France provided the Beans, Bullets and Bandaids covertly in the earliest stages of the American Revolutionary War. After the British defeat at Saratoga they became Allies to the Continental Army and provided their Navy and 10,000 French Regulars in support of the cause.
They were the thirteen former Navy enlisted men who became the first African American Navy commissioined at warrant Officers in the US Navy in March of 1944. When they received their commissions there were about 100,000 African Americans in the US Navy. (That works out to 7,692 enlisted for each officer.)
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Benjamin Stoddert became the first Secretary of the US Navy in 1798.
The American navy was almost no navy at all. However, the French navy was a respectable force second only to the British navy. The French navy helped the American Revolution immensely.
The Battle of Yorktown was the only American Revolutionary War battle where the French Army and Navy coordinated a large operation with the American Army.
The man you are referencing is John Paul Jones, father of the American navy.
France provided the Beans, Bullets and Bandaids covertly in the earliest stages of the American Revolutionary War. After the British defeat at Saratoga they became Allies to the Continental Army and provided their Navy and 10,000 French Regulars in support of the cause.
They were the thirteen former Navy enlisted men who became the first African American Navy commissioined at warrant Officers in the US Navy in March of 1944. When they received their commissions there were about 100,000 African Americans in the US Navy. (That works out to 7,692 enlisted for each officer.)
Benjamin Franklin (America's first diplomat) went to France and asked them to join the war on our side because we needed a navy. After Saratoga, they joined.
The incredible job that General Washington's spies did of providing misinformation to the British as well as the french navy's assistance of blocking any retreat.
They were the thirteen former Navy enlisted men who became the first African American Navy commissioined at warrant Officers in the US Navy in March of 1944. When they received their commissions there were about 100,000 African Americans in the US Navy. (That works out to 7,692 enlisted for each officer.)
Barbary corsair attacks on American merchant ships and French seizures of American merchant ships
America- with the aid of the French navy.
He was once a pirate and then became captain of the American Navy.
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